The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment
Abstract
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) collaboration has designed and constructed a dual-phase xenon detector, in order to conduct a search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs), a leading dark matter candidate. The goal of the LUX detector is to clearly detect (or exclude) WIMPS with a spin independent cross-section per nucleon of 2×10-46 cm2, equivalent to ∼1 event/100 kg/month in the inner 100-kg fiducial volume (FV) of the 370-kg detector. The overall background goals are set to have <1 background events characterized as possible WIMPs in the FV in 300 days of running. This paper describes the design and construction of the LUX detector.
- Publication:
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A
- Pub Date:
- March 2013
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1211.3788
- Bibcode:
- 2013NIMPA.704..111A
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 50 pages, 16 figures
